Journalist Karl Fleming Chronicled Civil Rights Era

By: Karen Grigsby Bates
August 15, 2012

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Journalist Karl Fleming chronicled many of the key moments in the civil rights era in the South. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he was beaten during the 1965 Watts Riots. Fleming died last weekend at age 84.

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